Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

GL84 Halloween-themed segments set in one suburban town.The Good Stories: Sweet Tooth-Marveling over his haul, a kid trying to eat his treats learns the story of a boy not getting his candy and has become a demon every Halloween. While his guardians play with the haul, they realize their stories might be true. This was a decent enough segment. This really works the Sweet Tooth character, which is a believable small-town backstory that's somewhat fun and given a lengthy time to play-out. The eventual retribution is carried out and delivers some thrills and solid gore- gags, but it suffers from a familiar set-up and expected conclusion.The Weak and the Wicked-Living in a desolate neighborhood, delinquents tormenting trick-or-treaters finds a loner attempting to stand up to their tactics. Turning to him, they realize too late who've they come across and must deal with their actions. This one ended up being quite surprising. This has quite a stellar backstory that's played out a grand theme of revenge is quite a stellar twist. That this has the kind of up-tempo and frantic action present here makes for a really exciting time here, and there's a lot to like.Ding Dong-Following a deadly Halloween freakout, a man resents going through a trick-or-treat game with his wife. When he realizes that it's starting again, he tries to stop her deadly plans from coming true. This was a somewhat offbeat, mixed-bag affair. The scenes of her going through the different antics with the children are quite fun, while the witch effects here are incredibly gruesome. The main thing holding it down is a severe lack of information on what's going on, making the entire affair confusing overall.This Means War-When neighbors move across the street, a man's attempts to have the scariest haunted house on the block are severely compromised by their more modern display. Growing frustrated by their lack of respect, their challenge reaches a boiling point. This ends up as the most frustrating effort due to the lack of resolution as this one just tends to end. Still, their antics to one-up each other give this a nice amount of fun.Friday the 31st-Running for her life, a woman tries to escape from the serial killer who has stalked and killed her friends. Despite her best efforts, she can't escape from the madman who soon finds a more otherworldly threat in his presence. This was just an absolute blast of a segment and was the highlight of it all. The fact that it plays with slasher clichés and conventions through the woods and the shack battle before it becomes a wild, deranged inversion in the second half with the killer now forced to battle an equal as the two take turns brutally dismembering each other makes for a truly gruesome and wickedly funny segment.The Ransom of Rusty Rex-Attempting to kidnap a millionaire's kid, two thugs hold him for ransom and follow through on their plans. When it all blows up, they realize they have a more troublesome charge than they expected. This was a rather enjoyable effort which has a lot to like. The twist to the origin of the kid makes this a solid effort, and the different tactics to get rid of his resulting in a fun time overall. Again, not much is known about what's going on but it's still enjoyable.Bad Seed-Following the death of her husband, a woman's claims that a pumpkin came to life and eat him is scoffed at by the police. When more stories turn up, the investigating officer finds something far deadlier than she expected. This was a fun and enjoyable one. The meta-thread of mentioning the other events in the town give this a fun feel, and the attacks by the creature are incredibly fun with the thing walking around leading to some grisly antics. The ending doesn't pack a punch, but it's still enjoyable.The Bad Stories: The Night Billy Raised Hell-Heading out trick-or- treating, a young kid initially told to prank an elderly man is forced to go along with a series of tricks. As the games continue, he soon learns the shocking reason for his plans. This was quite a lame and barely worthwhile segment. The main joy here is seeing how far he goes with his pranks, and while there's a certain glee to be had it's about all that goes right. The main problem is that none of the pranks are funny or have a point to them, the pointed celebrity cameo is just plain pathetic and there's such a stupid twist at the end that it really spoils the entire segment with barely any horror resolution.Trick-Hosting a Halloween party, a group of friends find their festivities interrupted when one of the neighboring trick-or- treaters attacks them. As they succumb to more attacks, they soon learn the otherworldly reason for their behavior. This ended up being a mixed affair. There's a lot to like here with the efficient manner they go about slaughtering the group and it manages quite a few scenes of brutal action here. The problem is that none of it is particularly scary as the lack of motivation for anything manages to make the entire affair confusing and it just seems banal overall.Grim Grinning Ghost-Gathered for Halloween, a group of adults learn a terrifying legend involving a local ghost. When one woman confronts the sinister creature, she finds her night to be more terrifying than she expected. This was a rather troubling and overall bland effort. Most of this is that barely anything happens as the vast majority of the running time is her walking home which is effectively eerie and somewhat chilling. Still, the lack of action here doesn't really give this one any suspense and it just makes for a dull enough offering leaving this one of the weaker stories.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Extreme Graphic Language and children-in-jeopardy.

ajourneywithjake Expecting a generic Horror Anthology film, which are usually gory, cheesy, and uninspiring, I was pleasantly surprised by this film. While a couple of it's segments were duds, most of them were great. They had a nice mix of being either funny, spooky, invigorating, and even in one case having a great twist that I did not see coming whatsoever. Most of them have great characters and plenty of awesome moments and scenarios. I think I liked Friday the 31 or the Ransom of Rusty Rex the most, yet Bad Seed and The Night Rusty Raised Hell were also really good. Of the ten, I think I only disliked two; Ding Dong, which was too weird and depressing, and Grim Grinning Ghost, which seemed to barely last and had no satisfying ending. Of all these stories though, they all have great sets and are very well produced. This anthology film is definitely worth checking out, especially around Halloween.You can read this and other reviews on my blog at https://ajourneywithjake.wordpress.com/

Paul Magne Haakonsen Now, I will say that anthologies is usually something that I am not overly keen on because they are mostly too shallow and you hardly get invested in the segments as they tend to be too short in time. However, I must admit to being more than pleasantly surprised with the outcome of "Tales of Halloween".This anthology is comprised of ten stories spanning 1 hour and 32 minutes in total, which makes for a small amount of time per segment, for sure. But what works in this anthology is that the segments are precise and to the point; there is no trotting about and wasting time. But better yet, the fact that each of the stories is connected with another stories in the anthology just makes it all the more enjoyable and watchable.Most of the stories were quite good, and there definitely was a good variety of stories here, so there is something for just about everyone in the audience, whatever your preferences and tastes may be.What really impressed me in "Tales of Halloween" was the amount of familiar actors and actresses that they had popping up in all of the segments. It was an actual joy of sitting and recognizing familiar faces and trying to spot them. The cast includes names such as Barry Bostwick, Lin Shaye, Barbara Crampton, Stuart Gordon, James Duval, John Savage, Lombardo Boyar and more. So there definitely was a bunch of talents to be seen here."Tales of Halloween" is listed as a horror comedy, which is exactly what it is. Sure, there were spooks and creepy stuff to be had here, but nothing in the likes of being too much for it to still be a family spook fest. And the combination of horror elements and comedy worked out quite nicely.The special effects and practical effects in the anthology was quite good. The effects were believable and really served their purposes quite well. This was good, because effects are quite important to anything related to the horror genre.Of course, some segments were better than others, but in overall, then this was a very enjoyable anthology. And it definitely turned out to be a rather great surprise. I sat down to watch it with my family, and everyone had a good time. So "Tales of Halloween" is a well-worthy addition to any movie marathon that you might host during Halloween.If you haven't already seen "Tales of Halloween", then I can highly recommend that you take the time to do so, because this really was quite a blast.

jtindahouse I ended up enjoying enjoying 'Tales of Halloween' more than I expected to - sort of at least. I had low expectations going in, then I didn't enjoy the first segment and was really dreading sitting through nine more of these things. Then things picked up. Then they went down hill again, and then back up. It really was a roller coaster ride in terms of quality. Breaking each of the ten segments down into simply good, average or bad would go a little something like this:Sweet Tooth: badThe Night Billy Raised Hell: goodTrick: averageThe Weak and the Wicked: goodDing Dong: badGrim Grinning Ghost: averageThis Means War: badFriday the 31st: average (terrible story, but had the most effective scare of the whole film)The Ransom of Rusty Rex: badBad Seed: badSo half of them were bad, three were average and two were good. If you'd told me that would be the breakdown going in I probably would've taken it. Not happily, but it's certainly better than all ten of them being shocking. My advice would be to give it a miss though. Even in the terrible world of modern horror there are better things out there than this.